the botanist
Hi, I'm Kristel! I’m a Harvard-educated botanist with a PhD in tree winter bud morphology. While working in the academic, botanical world, I learned to observe nature very closely.
It never ceases to amaze me which amazing surprises you can find in your natural surroundings if you just stop and look.
more by me and about me
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I'm fascinated by observation as an activity, a skill and a process. I spoke about it at the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) in November 2025.
You can watch a recording of that talk here.
Waterways World featured me in their March 2025 issue! Read it here (subscribers only)
Read my Arnoldia article Spring is the New Fall about winter buds in shagbark hickory (Carya ovata).
View Winter Twig Keys: Manuals for Tracing time, an online exhibit I created with the Harvard Library.
© 2026 Kristel Schoonderwoerd